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(maize, wheat, and barley) is etiually aud quite fully digested, providing it is 

 fed in a ration having a ratio of 1 : 8 or less. 



" In view of their composition and digestibility, it would seem as if there 

 were no reason to expect any pai'ticiilar difference in the feeding effect of . . . 

 wheat aud corn. It is possible, however, that the energy required for the diges- 

 tion of the wheat might be greater than that required to digest the corn. It is 

 well known that poultry are particularly fond of corn and moderately so of 

 wheat, but do not care tespecially for barley. This fact should not be over- 

 looked in comparing the relative merits of corn, wheat, and barley for this 

 class of stock." 



The data for Blomo horse feed, which are reported, have been noted in a 

 previous publication (E. S. R., 17, p. 283). The materials used in the digestion 

 experiments were analyzed. 



Digestion experiments with wethers, H. G. Knight, F. E. Hefner, and 

 G. E. Morton (Wijoming Sta. Rpt. 1906, pp. SS-^-'i)- — Noted from another publi- 

 cation (E. S. R.. IS. p. 202). 



Ration experiments with lambs, 1905-6, G. E. Morton {WyomiiHi Sta. Bui. 

 73, pp. 18, figs. 12). — In the first of the feeding tests reported native hay fed 

 with oats, corn, and barley meal, alone and supplemented with oil meal, was 

 compared with alfalfa hay and corn, using 7 lots of 5 lambs each. In the 14 

 weeks covered by the test the gain on the native hay rations ranged from 12.8 

 lbs. per head when corn was fed to 17.4 lbs. with oats and oil meal. The small- 

 est amount of grain per pound of gain, 5.75 lbs., was noted with the barley 

 ration and the largest amount, ().77 lbs., with the oats and oil meal ration, 

 0.54 and 5.74 lbs., respectively, of the hay being required in addition. In the 

 ca.se of the alfalfa hay ration 3.82 lbs. of corn and 5.84 lbs. of hay were required 

 per pound of gain. 



*' None of the native hay rations were as satisfactory as corn and alfalfa. 



" Hulled barley and native hay proved to be the' most economical of the native 

 hay rations. 



" Oil meal, fed with native hay and grain, increases the cost of gain, although 

 it produces slightly greater gains than native hay and grain without oil meal. 

 When fed with corn and native hay, it produces enough greater gains to make 

 the ration practically equal in cost to the native hay and corn ration, and the 

 extra degree of fatness in the lambs brings a better price in the market." 



In a comparison of corn and alfalfa hay with peas in the field, which was 

 made with 2 lots of 100 lambs each, the average gain per head on the former 

 ration was 31.24 lbs. in 14 weeks and on the latter 19.98 lbs., 6.82 lbs. of alfalfa 

 and 2.92 lbs. of corn being required per jiound of gain, as, compared with the 

 peas grown on five-eighths of an acre. 



" Field peas, grazed off, showed returns approximately equaling the returns 

 from feeding alfalfa and corn, with the peas valued at .$8 per acre, alfalfa at 

 $5 per ton, and corn at $1 per cwt. ; although the alfalfa and corn lambs gained 

 about one-half more than the pea lambs." 



During shipment the lambs fed corn and alfalfa shrank 4.2 lbs. per head more 

 than the pea-fed lambs. 



Summary of lamb feeding, 1905-6, G. E. Morton {Wyoming Sta. Rpt. 1906, 

 pp. 23-32). — Noted above from another publication. 



Growing hogs in western Nebraska, W. P. Snyder (Nebraska Sta. Bill. 99, 

 pp. 32, figs. 9). — A number of tests were undertaken to ascertain the most ])rofit- 

 able methods of producing itork on alfalfa and to study the feeding value of 

 grains conmionly grown locally. 



